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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-17
NUMBER AZ.
The Presidents Message.

New York Tribune
For the first time in the country's
history, the Presidents annual mes.
sage omits all reference to the many
grave public interests respecting
which good citizens of all parties
agree, and is exclusively DEVOTED to
an issue between parties. President
Cleveland gives Congress no infor-
nation about the fishery question, the
pending negotiations with Great Bril-
tain or relations with other foreign
powers. President Cleveland seems
refreshingly unaware that his entire
message is inspired by extreme free
trade theories. 1t seems never to
have ocrurred to the President that
foreign prices are in fact, to large
extent. controlled by the American
demand. 1t Is hard to understand
how thee Rresident- reconciles his
statements respecting the surplus
revenue with official reports of his
subordinates.
The Treasury Department has
within week reported that the cur
rency of all kinds in circulation out
side of the Treasury is $4,000, 600
mole than it was five months ago,
and Sl19.000,000 more than it was
seventeen months ago, and yet the
prnSi,]nnf hat .E Ill.
from use of the peoples circulating
medium" has "lately subjected the
business community to Distress"
But the Presidents gravest error is
the unfortunate assumption that a
needed reduction of revenue can pest
be attained by lowering duties and
thus inviting larger importations. 1t
is q message which his poiitica!
friends will keeniy regret, ahd which
they will labor to explain away when
they come to confront the voters next
fall.
Philadelphia Press.
A thousand thanks to President
Cleveland for the bold, manly and
uneQuivOCal aVOWaI of lis extreme
free trade purposes, and q thousand
rebukes and defeats for the false.
dangerous and destructive policy
which he thus frankly and unresery-
edly proclaims. The message de-
serves all the glCry of courage, all
the praise of high public issues, all
the condemnation of utter, ruinous
heresy. 1t is a surprise IN its method
and a still greater surprise in its
motto. 1t comes like the sudden
echoing boom of great gun. signal
ing a crucial fight on unexpected
ground. 1n It's immediate flash of
light, and in its broad bearings, it
looms up as one of the most moment
Gus political events since the war. 1t
plants the President and his party
8quarely on free trade. 1t clarifies
the next Presidential battle as "a
lightning stroke. The
Republican party will welcome and
accept tue Presidents challenge, be-
cause it strips away all extraneOus
questions and all ambiguous utter
struggle great battle for American
labor and American industry. In
that sign We conquer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-17

WsM more money than at anything else by
EegW taking an agency for the best selling
book out Beginners succeed grandly. None
fail. Terms free. HAII.ETT RonE Co., Port
land, Maine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-17
WORKING GLASSES ANETEETHoN Ns Bsg ION

prepared to furnish all classes with employ
ment at home, the whole OF the time, or for
their spare moments. Business new, light
and profitable. Persons of either sex easily
proportional sum by devoting all their time
to the business. Bows and girls earn nearly
as much as men. That all who see this may
send their address, and test the business, we
make this offer. To such as are not well sat
istied we will send one dollar to pay for the
trouble of writing. Full particulars and out
fit free. Address GEORGE STINSoN &c Co.,
Portland Maine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-17

A little boy, while playing, fell
down the steps and hurt himself Sc
verely. His mother scoldri him for
his careless, and he sohbed out:
Mamma, please don't scoIl me till L
get through the hurting"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-17

Sick man.-Am l to take Ell that
medicine? Wife.-Yes, ait ofE. Sick
man.-There's enough in ihtt bottle
to kill a mule. Wite.--No, there
isn't, John, Tor the doctor wouldn't
have prescribed it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-17

The pubIlist breaks his wrist, and
the opera singer contracts throat
trouble.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1887-12-16
FARMING INTERESTS.
The Annual Report Of the Commits
sioncr Of Agriculture.

The Commissioner of Agriculture, in his
annual report recommends substantially the
abolition of the seed division OF the depart
meut. and the transfer of its duties to tho
State and Territorial experiment stations
The directors of these institutions, he says,
ought to know what kind of seed tho
farmers of their respective neighborhoods
are interested in and what kinds are best
adapted to each locality. IF, he says, this
work of testing and distributing seed could
be done by the stations, and the department
be relieved of this duty, it would enable u 10
work in other directions of great importance
to the agricultural interests OF the country.
The Commissioner discusses the scope ana
functions of the department. in way which
leaves room for the plain inference that he
diSapprOves the efforts 10 make II an eXecu-
tive department, with a member Tn OF
partTnent's position, he thinks should be
that of an adviser in those inVestlga-
tions and enterprises which bear
upon the agricultural interests OF the coun-
try I'm the beginning be says, 1.-The de-
partment may have been an experiment, but
It's condition now should leave no doubt as 70
the precise relation which the department.
should hold to the Government The de-
ve'opment has been natural, and there may
be valuable lesson in the history Of its eyo-
luton
The Commissioner SAYS it Is yet too early to
make an official statement OF the results IN
detail of the present years experiments In the
development of sorghum sugar manufacture;
"but, :" he adds, enough is known already TO
enable this country 10 anticipate at an early
day the production of a sugar supply from a
plant as easy of cultivation as corn, but little
circumscribed by climatic influences, and ono
whose by products have value equal TO the
cost of raising.
ON the subject Of our wheat surplus he
saws: The comparative prominence OF this
country in its wheat surplus may not Do
popularity realized. While our exports
have exceeded 13G, 000 900 bushels per
annuIn for ten years. those OF Russia
were about 81. 100000 bushels and
those OF India p. 10000 bushels in round
numbers. for the last decade. Other lands
contribute only very small surplus-Aus,
tralia, Chilli, the Argentine Republic, and
others, only few millions each-and the
combined surplus Of all nations does not
equal that OF this country
The report treats Of the work OF the bureau
of Animal Industry in preventing the spreah
of pleuro-pneumonia from infected counties,
and says that there has not been time ia
wears when this malady has been confined 10
such restricted areas as at present IL the state
authorities continue their cooperation ana
Congress makes an appropriation equal I'd
that Of the present year, the COMMISSIONS
believes that this dangerous disease can De
exterminated by the end Of the next fiscal
year.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1887-12-16

and 70 them. 1 beg , I'VE to repeat prior
recommendations.
AS the law makes no s.e,Svision for any re
port from the Department of State. n brief
history of the transactions Of that important
department. together with other mattsrs
which il NAV hereafter be deemed essential
to commend 10 ttss attention OF the Congress.
may furnish the occasion for n future com
munication GROVER CLEVELAND.
Washington. Dee. 6. 1887.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-30
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,

THE New York Academy OF Music has
been sold at auction for $500, 900.
MCKEE RANKIN has struck out with a new
play called 1.-The Golden Giant"
The King Of Portugal is an indefatigable
and admirable player of the violoncello.
FOURTEEN Of the late False Prophets Gel
Mahdi's) musicians are giving concerts in
Paris.
GAYARRE, the Spanish tenor, has received
SIC, 600 for the fifty nights of the opera season
just closed.
JOHN GILBERT, the New York actor, is
seventy-seven years of age, and has been on
the stage fifty-nine years.
In Brooklyn male voice choirs are rapidly
taking the place of mixed choirs. Already
there are over thirty in the city.
Mrs. LANGTRY'S establishment consists Of
her New York house, twenty-five servants,
eight carriages and twelve horses.
Mrs. NOAH, a once famous actress, is still
living in Rochester, n. Y, in her eightieth
year, and has promised to play Lady Macbeth
at benefit in June.
WILLIAM H. DAvIDGE, playing at the
Madison Square Theatre in New York, has
just entered on the fifty-first year of his stage
life. He is now Seventy-five.
MISS ANNA DICKINSON is slowly recovering
her health. According to a correspondent She
has entreaties for plays from two well known
stars, for novel from New York publisher
and for several magazine articles.
SOME of the salaries of the American Opera
Company, says the Boston Traveller, are as
follows: Theodore Thomas, $1,000 per week;
Manager Locke, $S00 per week; NV. Whit
ney, $500 per wsek, and Candidus, $1,000 per
month.
Mr. IRVING will not confine himself to
"Faust" during his coming American tour.
Merchant of Venice" "Jingle," "Olivia,"
"Louis XI.," and "The Bells.h he has de-
siced not to play Hamlet
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NEWsY GLEANINGs.

ST.. LOUIS claims to be the great hardwood
depot Of the United States. 49, ... ,-5.--:.r..
A FoRTY-THREE pound beaver was recently
trapped near Conlonge, Canada. q.
Ar McKillop, Canada, q few days ago, 4
young mare gave birth to three colts.
LoU1s1HsA claims the largest farm in the
world, 1t comprises 1,5O0, 900 acres land and
swamp.
An octopus nine feet long was captured al
the mouth Of Coquille River, California,
recently. ....... .-
d: IT is estimated that the Queens Jubilee SER
vice to be held in Westminster Abbey will
cost 1000. e.. -,
EDWARD A. STANLEY, Of Chicago, be-
queathed an estate Of over $500, 900 in o wiz
Of four lines -, ..- 49,
IT is stated that W. J. Browning, q Merced
Cal.) hunter, killed 3s, 900 ducks this season.
In one day he killed $50. .t..
THE Grand Duke Paul, the Cars youngest
brother, is to marry the Princess Alexandra
of Greece, aged seventeen. ., a.. =.
THERE are two solid gold bricks in the
United States Mint at Denver, each one OF
which weighs nearly ITO pounds D. +
THERE recently arrived at Palatka, Fla,
from Maine, two Indians who had made tho
ocean trip in small birch canoe.
WILD geese and ducks are so numerous ONT
farm at Palos, Cal, that they have to be
herded from the wheat and alfalfa fields.
THE champion apple-par lives at Wheat
land Mich. Her record for the current sea-
son is 1,450 barrels, and all done without
neglect of household duties.
REPORTS from the winter wheat belt indi-
cate that the crop is emerging from the win
ter in better shape than last year, but it has
still to pass through critical period.
PROF. EDWARD OLNEY, late Of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, had great head. His brain
weighed sixty lone ounces, five ounces moro
than Webster's and twelve above the aver"
age
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-30

The physicians of the Polytechnic
Hospital of New York have just re-
moved tumor from young mans
brain. The physicians before the opera
ton learned that when two years old
the young man had fallen from fence
and had corn stalk driven through
his skull. The hole, however, had in
course of time filled up with bony mat
ter. The young man had frequent fits,
periods of hysteria, had developed
paralytic symptoms and began to show
q morbid suspicion of people. The
physicians having decided that the
trouble lay in the brain, learned of the
accident in childhood, found the scar
of the wound, placed the patient under
the influence of ether, cut piece out
of the skull ct the scar, found the
tumor growing in the brain and re-
moved it. In its center was splinter
of bone. The tumor was pear-shaped
and two inches in diameter where
widest. 1t took an hour to remove 1t.
The patient has almost completely re-
covered and shows none of his former
symptoms.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-30
THE CZAR'S DANGER.
An Attempt to Assassinate the
Emperor of Russia.
Men With Bombs Lying in Wait
For the Imperial Carriage.

Reports from st. Petersburg regarding the
discovery of a great plot against the Car
caused much excitement at Berlin. There IS
disposition in German circles to regard the
whole plot as an attempt to force the Car to
make war instead of peacably dividing Bull
paria with Austria. Tho Berlin Post, a semi
official organ, expresses this feeling as follows:
"With alarm and grief we say it: Europe must
guard itself against the policy of despair
which may show itself in fataistic quiet or
convulsive boldness. The last is the more
probable. 1t is thought here that the plot
Law in carrying out the Bulgarian partition
agreement with Austria"
The latest authentic intelligence from st.
Petersburg as to the attempt on the Car
shows that the bomb, which was to have been
thrown under the imperial carriage, was con-
cealed in a case SHAPED like book of quarto
size. The young man who carried it was
student. A string was hanging from the
case, and it was by means OF this that the
bomb was to have been flung.
A man who was standing behind the stu
dent noticed that the latters book seemed
very heavy and that he repeatedly shifted 1t
from arm to arm. This ma le him suspicious,
and he drew the attention of q byStander to
the Young man. Hardly had he done so when
he saw the young man stoop, deposit his
book on the pavement and tumble ut the
string :,
Luckily the string slipped from the would
be regicide's hand and the man who had been
observing him, caught him by the collar and
showed him back violently into the
crowd. 1t was seen then that another
youth, who had been standing beside
the one with the book, was making
lough efforts to force his way through the
surging mass of people who had been attracted
by the arrest of the first man. This second
youth had travelling bag slung about him.
He was seized, too, and his bag was after
ward found to contain bomb.
1t is said the Gar heard nothing of the
whole matter until he reached Gatschina, to
which place he has gone with the Empress
and their son. The Car shed tears >CIf Gil being
informed of the danger which not only him
self but the Empress and their son had so mar
rowly escaped
The attanaps to assassinate the Gar was
made on the anniversary of the day on which
his fntther, the late Gar, was killed by bomb
IhrowerS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-30
CHICAGO BOODLERS."

Arrest of Prominent Officials on the
. Charge OF Conspiracy to Defraud.
William J. McGarrigle, Warden Of the
Cook County Hospital at Chicago, "Ed" Nc
Donald, engineer Of the same institution and
brother of the notorious gambler, mike" Nc
Donald; Harry Varnell, Warden of the Insane
Asylum, aud Richard o. Driscoll a bookkeeper
employed by one Of the firms of alleged swind-
ling contractors, have been indicted by the
Special Grand Jury for conspiring to defraud
Cook County, and were all arrested. Joseph
T. Connolly, bookkeeper for D. P. Boyle &
Co., bogus firm, the members Of which
were county employees and officials, was also
indicted.
These indictments and arrests have grown
out of an investigation begun some weeks ago
into the accounts Of the persons named, as
well as of several others, with the county.
It became apparent in a short time
that great frauds had been perpetrated
upon Cook County by various business firms
and contractors acting in conjunction with
officials, who certified that the bills pre-
sented were all right. Generally speak
ing the frauds consisted in overcharges
and in the purchase of large amounts of
supplies, which never found their way into
the institutions to which they were charged.
Private houses were furnished and private
ney Grinnel[ took hold of the matter and asked
Judge Anthony for special Grand Jury
to investigate the charges made by newspa-
pers and individuals, and which his own as
SiStantS had been SubStantiatng.
The Grand Jury was drawn and began its
investigation with the result above de-
described.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-30

Do you know that people like to be
humbuggedr' asked a physician Of a
Philadelphia Call reporter. '1t's fact,
and large percentage of the practice
of the most successful doctors is pure
humbuggery. A great many people are
filed with immaginary aches and pains.
They've had them for years in their
imagination, and have grown to regard
them with tenacious affection. When
they consult a physician about them
they 40 not like to have the matter
rsoh-poohed. They do not wish to be
told there is nothing the matter with
them. They want to be told they are
sick; to be sympathized with, and to
be prescribed for. They then pay tho
fee willingly. Some of the best and
most persistent patients I have are as
sound as a dollar. I listen to their
recital of their symptoms right along,
prescribe some harmless as well as USE
less dose and charge it in my little
bill. It is to this little diplomacy of
mine that I attribute much of my
success"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-30
LATER NEWS.

/ THE Rhode Island Republican State Con-
vention, held in Providence, renominated
Governor Wetmore and all the present in.
cumbents of Office by acclamation.
LYMAN S. WEEKS, q resident Of Brooklyn,
had retired the other night when his wife
heard noise in the basement. She awoke
her husband, who proceeded down stairs, and
was shot dead by a burglar. The assassin left
no clue to his identity.
TWENTY-FIVE men have been arrested near
| Ozark, No., for participating in the massacre
of two men named Eden and Green.
THE Virginia Legislature met in special
session at Richmond, and Governor Lees
message dwelt specially on the debt question.
KING BAN, a noted sire of running horses,
died at Lexington, KY. He was valued at
So, 900.
A DISASTROUS explosion Of dynamite has
occurred in stone quarry at Lobositz, Bohe-
mia. All the men ut work in the quarry ut
the time were blown to atoms.
NJ AUBERGAT, conductor Of the orchestra
at the Grand Theatre, Toulon, France, shot
dead an actress named Levy, and then threw
himself beneath railroad train, where he
was crushed to death.
GLADSTONE and the Parnelltes are prepar-
ing to make vigorous fight in Parliament
against the British Governments coercivo
measures toward Ireland
NEW YORK business circles have been con.
siderably stirred up by news of the failure OF
Lawton Brothers, extensive dealers in fertn-
zers, coupled with the sudden flight Of Walter
E. Lawton, Of the firm" with about $200, 900
in cash, which he is charged with obtaining
fraudulently. A number Of banks and cor
porations have been victimized by Lawton.
The total liabilities are placed at over 81 ,0O0,-
600.
FOUR men were badly burned by gas e1-
plosion in a colliery at Wilkesbarre, Penn.
Two of the four were probably fatally in
jured.
THERE was the usual large procession of
Irish societies in New York on st. Patrick's
Day. and banquet by the Sons of st. Pat
rick in the evening.
A BAND of Kentucky Vigilantes were whip
ping an old woman in Rock Castle County
for selling beer without a license, when they
were fired upon in the darkness, and three of
their number killed.
TwENTY-THREE persons received more or
less serious injuries by the breaking of the
platform leading to a Catholic Church en-
trance in Chicago.
Two children were killed. a woman was
fatally injured, several persons were hurt and
number of houses destroyed by a tornado at
Tampa, Fla.
EIGHT new Cardinals of the Roman Catho-
lie Church, including Cardinals Gibbons and
Tascheran of America, received their hats
from the Pope at public Consstory in Rome.
A COMPLETE snow blockade prevails on the
Canadian Pacific in the Rocky Mountains, and
there will be no trains for fortnight.
KIDNAPPING is being carried on by whole
sale in portion of Cuba. One man had to
pay ransom of $1,000 before he was
released
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-30
THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE Detroits were the first League team to
open the season.
THE Baltimore American Association Club
has started on Southern trip.
GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, q colored player Of
Pittsburg, is said to be the tallest man in the
profession, his height being q feet inches
BEFORE the season opens every State in tho
country is expected to have its base ball
the latest heard from.
TIE Northern clubs have captured all the
good players of the Southern League, and the
Southern League managers are now forced 10
come North for their players.
EIGHTEEN of the best players In the New
England League will be found in Des MONIES,
Minneapolis and Oshkosh, Of the North
western League, next season.
THE eight American Association cities have
a population OF $500, 900, while those of the
League have 8, 400 900, giving the Americans
the advantage of half million.
FAULTLEss fielding says the Clipper, dis
tinguishcd the play of one side in no fewer
than l56 games between professional clubs last
season, including tho Brooklyn Metropolitan
game, April "a; Bridgeport-W Waterbury, May
Is; Newark Bridgeport, July 8, and Newark
Waterbury, September Is, in which no errors
were made by either side.
The vacancy in the National League has Mt
last boen filled by the admission of a club from
indianapolis in place of Kansas City. The
Indianapolis club paid $4,000 for the late
st. Louis clubs team. As constituted now
the National League will he represented by
clubs in New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
Pittsburg, Washington, Chicago, Detroit aud
Indianapolis
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-30
South and WeSt

WILLIAM JAcKsoS-Ias sentenced at Fall
mouth,-ht che other day, to twenty years
Imprisonment for murder. The same night
a crowd of masked men broke into Falmouth
Jail, took out jackson and hanged him to q
tree.
A PASSENGER train jumped the track near
Gratiot, ILL.,, and thirty persons, including
State Senator Southworth, were more or les
hurt.
HENRY ARTS, (colored) was hung at Colds
boro, N. c., for the murder of his step
daughter.
AN insane young man named Lenshaw
stopping with his family near Little Rock,
Ark, 1nortally wounded his father and mother
and injured his three brothers and sister dur
ing an attack Of his disease. The family were
on their way to Texas.
A FIRE at Lumberton, N. c., destroyed
seventy-fve buildings, comprising the bust
ness part of the town. A great many families
were rendered homeless.
SEWARD MOTT, Second Lieutenant of the
Tenth United States Cavalry, was murdered
by young Apache chief at the San Carlos
reservation, Arizona
THIRTY-oNE men were placed on trial the
other day at Edgefeld, S. c., charged with
lynching T. Culbreath in September, 1885.
Senator Butler appeared for accused.